ZERO TOLERANCE, WAEL SHAWKY: CABARET CRUSADES and More Set for MoMA PS1 This Winter

MoMA PS1 has announced its upcoming exhibitions and events for fall and winter 2014. Details below!

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Zero Tolerance
Through March 8, 2015
First Floor Galleries

Named for the 1990s policy under which New York City took a tough stance against vice and crime, Zero Tolerance brings together works by twenty artists from across the globe that address tensions between freedom and control. Many of the works combine elements of political demonstration and celebratory parades to create art of a charged and ambivalent nature, responding to concerns specific in place and time.

Retrospective by Xavier Le Roy
Through December 1, 2014
Third Floor Galleries

MoMA PS1 presents Retrospective, the inaugural American museum survey of French artist and choreographer Xavier Le Roy (b. 1963). Realized in the galleries by a team of performers who continuously recycle and transform Le Roy's solo work, conceived between 1994 and 2010, the exhibition opens up expanded opportunities for interaction within the museum. In his reconfiguration of the conventionally linear form of the retrospective as an accumulative mid-career survey, Le Roy brings his past works to life by consolidating and reimagining them into a new whole. In the process the exhibition unfolds across several different time axes that introduce temporal complexity to the galleries. The result is a groundbreaking hybrid of choreography and visual art that transforms the traditional exhibition format into a creative medium.

Bob & Roberta Smith: Art Amnesty
Through March 8, 2015
Courtyard and Second Floor Main Galleries

Bob and Roberta Smith are offering an opportunity for artists to dispose of their artwork at MoMA PS1, and to retire from making art. Beginning October 2, artists are invited to deposit their art in dumpsters located in the museum's courtyard, which will be emptied as needed throughout the period of the Art Amnesty. Those who wish to exhibit their work one final time before it is destroyed may bring their art to the Second Floor Main Galleries, where museum staff will install it for public view. The museum will accept work under the Art Amnesty during regular hours, subject to certain restrictions that will be published at momaps1.org. The exhibition reprises and expands upon their Art Amnesty originally presented at Pierogi Gallery in 2002.

Francesco Vezzoli: Teatro Romano
Through March 8, 2015
Kunsthalle Gallery, Second Floor

MoMA PS1 presents an exhibition of works by Francesco Vezzoli (Italian, b. 1971). Drawing on extensive research about the use of color in antiquity, Vezzoli collaborated with a team of archaeologists, conservators and polychrome specialists to paint five ancient Roman busts in the manner in which they would originally have been decorated.

Sunday Sessions
Sundays
The VW Dome, Courtyard

Sunday Sessions is a weekly presentation of performance, moving images, music, dance, and discursive programs. Every Sunday different artists, curators, thinkers and other cultural agents are invited to share their latest projects and ideas with the MoMA PS1 audience.

Complete listing of upcoming events.

Samara Golden: The Flat Side of the Knife
Through September 1, 2015
First Floor Duplex Gallery

Los Angeles-based artist Samara Golden (American, b. 1973) creates immersive installations that explore what she calls the sixth dimension, where a multitude of pasts, presents, and futures exist concurrently. For The Flat Side of the Knife, Golden presents her largest installation to date, filling the double-height of MoMA PS1's Duplex Gallery with staircases, beds, couches, lamps, musical instruments, video, and sound.

The Little Things Could Be Dearer
Through February 1, 2015
Second Floor Galleries

In an age when digital communication technologies are changing the ways we relate to one another, we frequently encounter emotion in abbreviated forms and express it at a virtual remove. Social media networks encourage us to "like," "follow," or "hashtag" our feelings and desires, and to convey them in symbolic emoticons. Against this backdrop of disembodied and dispersed sentiment, The Little Things Could Be Dearer highlights four artists whose work heightens our awareness of more direct physical and emotional relations. These artists-Carina Brandes (German, b. 1982), Melanie Gilligan (Canadian, b. 1979), Ulrike Müller (Austrian, b. 1971), and Michael E. Smith (American, b. 1977) -- create groupings or networks of forms that take as their subject aspects of bodies coming together -- individually or socially -- to emphasize their points of contact.

Wael Shawky: Cabaret Crusades
Opens Winter 2015
Second Floor Galleries

MoMA PS1 presents Wael Shawky: Cabaret Crusades, a solo exhibition featuring the artist's epic video trilogy recounting the history of The Crusades from an Arab perspective. Inspired by The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, an essay by Lebanese historian Amin Maalouf, the works chart the Catholic Church's numerous campaigns to take over the Holy Land in and around Jerusalem, beginning with the early Crusades from 1096-99 that are depicted in Cabaret Crusades: The Horror Show Files (2010), and the First and Second Crusades from 1099-1145 in Cabaret Crusades: The Path to Cairo (2012). The exhibition will feature both of these works and will debut the third and final part of the series alongside a selection of the marionettes from the trilogy.

Pictured: Francesco Vezzoli. True Colors (A Marble Relief Head of a Goddess, Roman Imperial, circa 1st Century A.D.). 2014. 6.75 x 6.75 x 16.50". Courtesy Almine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Private Collection.